SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Blakes deleted Receipts "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Blakes deleted Receipts ")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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We found 18079 matches on Event Comments, 1063 matches on Performance Comments, 12 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: For ye Author of the Farce (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Cast
Role: Chatilion Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Event Comment: By Desire. The Author publish'd at 1s. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Le Medicin Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd for this night will be taken. Some person had Tickets (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Bellamy Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Afterpiece by Mr Foote (Cross). [Foote advertised that persons in the Author were fictitious, some having said his past friends were introduced. See Theatrical Review, 1757, and Public Advertiser this day: "Whereas it has been represented to the Managers of Drury Lane that Mr Foote in his new Farce call'd the Author, intends introducing the Character of a Gentleaan for whom he has the greatest esteem and regard, he thinks it incumbent upon him to assure the Public, that all the persons in that piece are fictitious and general. Samuel Foote."] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: MMiss Rosco did Zara (first) Indiff. (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Heli Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Bellamy Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: The Indian Peasants, as17570127

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Cast
Role: Euricles Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Cast
Role: Chatilion Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: TThe Author Publish'd at 1s. Printed for and sold by R. Francklin, in Russel St., Covent Garden; and P. Valliant, in the Strand. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Suffolk Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: uthor of the Theatrical Review, 1757-58, pp. 47-48 comments on the afterpiece: "Nothing but my promise to give some observations on all new dramatic productions could have prevailed on me to wade through this farce...I hear the author himself is come over to the public opinion and acknowledges it to be a very indifferent performance."] Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Brainworm Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: I: The Indian Peasants, as17570127

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Foote for ye farce (Cross). Mainpiece:Not acted these 12 years. [See 20 Nov. 1745.] Austin did Bertran r(first time) (Indiff) (Cross). Tickets to be had of Foote at the Whalebone Warehouse in James St., Covent Garden, and of Varney at the stage door. Part of pit laid into boxes. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: MMr Austin did Aboan (Cross). Third time of his appearing on this stage (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: Book of the Farce [The Author] will be sold in the theatre (Public Advertiser). [The Author probably the afterpiece.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Provost Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin Cross The Author Public Advertiser

Dance: IV: The Millers, as17570129

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Last time of performing the afterpiece till the Benefits. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Borachio Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Pritchard at her house in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; and at Pritchard's Warehouse in Tavistock St. Receipts: "230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Scotchman Actor: Blakes

Dance: A Grand Masquerade Dance-; in which Minuet-Miss Pritchard (by Desire)

Event Comment: An Oratorio composed by Sg Gio. Adol. Hasse, With Additions by Sg Giardini. End of the first Act a Concerto on the Organ by Mr Burton, In Act the third a Hautboy Concerto by the two Signori Besozzi, lately come from abroad. Pit and boxes 10s. 6d. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr Varney, at the stage-door of the Theatre. The profits of this performance will be given to A Public Charity. [No receipts recorded by Cross.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Pellegrini

Event Comment: Benefit for Mossop. Tickets at his lodgings in Newton's Warehouse, in Tavistock St., Covent Garden; and of Varney. [The Dramatic Register No 17 commented favorably upon Mossop's performance noting especially his fine modulation of voice. It also castigated a recent scurrilous attack upon Mossop. See Theatrical Clippings.] Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Cast
Role: Chatilion Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Tickets at her house in Henrietta St., and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. Receipts: #260 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: By particular Desire, Ellen@a@roon-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: By Particular desire. This day publish'd The Theatrical Examiner, an inquiry into the merits and demerits of the principal English performers in general...with a consideration of Douglas. [Gives advice to young actors, and some remarks on productions, praises Douglas, gives a diatribe against Garrick: "All young actors start, jump, and Garrickize, which is the true reason there is none of them tolerable." (98 pp.)] Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Heli Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin